Germany: Exit VR Combines Live Escape Game with Virtual Reality

Located in a former GDR telecommunications centre at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, Exit VR® offers a new kind of gaming experience called “Huxley”, combining the guesswork of a Live Escape Game with Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Before the game starts, two up to six participants are equipped with a light and wireless XMG computer backpack, an HTC Vive headmounted display and two controllers to interact in the virtual world.

The adventure begins in a room of 25 square meters, where players activate their devices and find themselves in the year 3007, when live on earth does not exist anymore. Based on a space station, the only survivors of mankind receive a call for help from the Earth – their mission: to reverse the apocalypse within 44 minutes by sharing all personal skills with the team to prove creativity, cleverness and logical thinking. Players can communicate via their headsets and discover space of some 200 virtual square meters to find the riddles and tasks. Just as in a live escape game, a game master oversees the running game through a video cam to give the team useful hints if required. “Huxley” was developed by Max Muehlbach and Rael Hoffmann, both founders of EXIT®, in cooperation with Sven Haeberlein and Nico Nonne, who founded the Berlin-based VR studio Trotzkind.

Read more on Virtual Reality and Escape Rooms in EAP issue 3/17. (eap)